Out of the nine alliances included in the landscape analysis, the four strong alliances are the only partnerships to value and practice deep collaboration and leadership development. For example, Elevated Chicago has community tables and working groups who meet on an ongoing basis to build upon existing plans of development that uplift the current community’s vision. Hope Community creates a pipeline of leadership development opportunities for community leaders and has created an annual report of their Hope Dialogues since 1997. TransForm demonstrates the power in pursuing long-term goals with community members, such as leading coalitions of community members to shape upcoming transportation funding ballot measures to prioritize transit, safe streets, and equity initiatives. Puget Sound Sage declared themselves the champion of long-term relationships through their community programs in each of their issue areas. These long-term partnerships distinguish these alliances from the weaker alliances that only abstractly discuss their endeavors to build and connect with community. Recommendation: The TransFormation Alliance’s Academy for both adults and youth have established a track record of success. To build upon this success, the Alliance should in addition to sharing information and resources with Academy participants, activate Academy graduates to influence and support TFA’s policy goals, sustain involvement by creating a pipeline of leadership development opportunities for promising and exceptional community leaders. These leadership development opportunities could be provided in partnership with local colleges and universities or can be developed as a TransFormation Alliance Fellowship program with Alliance members agreeing to accept Fellow placements at their organizations. This creates another opportunity for philanthropic investment in leadership development at the community level with TransFormation Alliance as the grant recipient. Capacity Consideration: No matter the duration of the fellowship experience a great deal of work will be required up-front to be successful and to ensure both the host member organization and the fellow have a positive and impactful experience. If soliciting funding for this idea, consider requesting Year 0 planning funds and a partnership with an organization like Hands on Atlanta to support development and implementation of a pilot year. TransForm has hosted Transportation Equity Summits since 2012 and the newer Elevated Chicago hosted their 2019 eTOD “All Aboard” symposium which was attended by 200+ people. Hosting summits/ conferences not only have the benefit of improving the Alliance’s brand but also create an additional revenue source from corporate sponsorships. Recommendation: TransFormation Alliance should work with its Executive Committee to plan and host its own “All Aboard” symposium or conference in Atlanta. The convening would support the Alliance’s sense making strategy inviting panelists/ speakers from member organizations to educate influencers about the mission and work of TransFormation Alliance and why it is critical to Atlanta’s future. Capacity Consideration: By engaging the executive committee, TransFormation Alliance can leverage the event planning experience and staff capacity of some of its member organizations to share the workload. All sponsorship dollars raised can be shared with the planning committee based on a previously agreed to revenue split. The coordination of the planning committee and logistics should be supported by an event planning consultant to ensure successful execution.
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TRANSFORMATION ALLIANCE STRATEGIC ARTICULATION MAP & FUND DEVELOPMENT PLAN REPORT
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